Cherry Servers

Cherry Servers is a Lithuania-based bare metal cloud provider that has built one of the most Solana-focused infrastructure businesses in the server hosting industry. Founded in 2001, the company has grown from a European colocation outfit into a globally distributed bare metal cloud with explicit product lines for Solana validators, RPC providers, and archive nodes. The company reports that validators running on its hardware collectively secure more than $10 billion worth of staked SOL, placing it among the largest Solana server providers by stake weight.

What Cherry Servers Offers

The company's core proposition is straightforward: single-tenant bare metal servers with predictable performance, crypto-native billing, and support staff who understand blockchain infrastructure. Unlike hyperscale public clouds, Cherry Servers does not virtualize its hardware — every Solana validator gets dedicated CPU cores, RAM, and NVMe drives without competing for resources.

Cherry Servers structures its Solana catalog around four distinct use cases:

Agave Validator. The baseline mainnet validator configuration uses an AMD EPYC 9254P processor (24 cores, up to 4.15 GHz boost), 384 GB of ECC-registered DDR5 memory, and a 2x 1 TB + 2x 4 TB NVMe storage array. This maps directly to the Solana Foundation's published validator hardware recommendations. Pricing starts at approximately €0.97 per hour, with monthly billing around €666.

Firedancer Validator. For operators running Jump Crypto's Firedancer client, Cherry Servers offers a higher-core configuration: AMD EPYC 9354P (32 cores, 3.8 GHz boost), the same 384 GB DDR5 RAM, and matching NVMe storage. The added compute headroom reflects Firedancer's multi-threaded packet processing model. Pricing starts around €877 per month.

Large RPC Node. High-throughput RPC providers require different hardware than validators — wider memory bandwidth over raw clock speed. Cherry Servers' RPC configuration uses an AMD Threadripper PRO 7975WX with 768 GB DDR5 RAM, designed for serving thousands of concurrent API requests without memory pressure. Monthly pricing is approximately €1,249.

Archive Node. Long-term ledger storage requires massive capacity. The archive configuration uses an AMD EPYC 9355 with 384 GB RAM and up to 4x 16 TB NVMe drives — purpose-built for operators maintaining full historical Solana ledger data. Monthly pricing is approximately €2,214.

All configurations include up to 10 Gbps bandwidth with 100 TB of monthly free egress and unlimited inbound traffic.

Global Data Centers

Cherry Servers operates seven data center locations: Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Chicago (US), Singapore, and Tokyo (Japan). The European footprint aligns well with Solana's geographic decentralization goals, and the spread of locations lets validators choose regions that balance latency to other validators with proximity to end-user RPC traffic.

The Chicago presence adds a North American option without the higher costs typical of US hyperscale clouds, while the Singapore and Tokyo nodes serve Asia-Pacific operators looking for bare metal at competitive pricing.

DoubleZero Integration

In a notable recent development, Cherry Servers joined DoubleZero as an official network contributor. DoubleZero is a high-performance network layer built specifically for blockchain applications, offering dedicated packet pathways that avoid public internet routing for better latency and jitter characteristics. Cherry Servers' four European data centers — Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Lithuania, and Stockholm — are now connected to the DoubleZero network. For Solana validators, this means faster block propagation and more stable validator-to-validator communication during peak network load, which directly affects vote landing rates and skipped slot performance.

Support and Crypto Payments

Cherry Servers accepts over 15 cryptocurrencies for payment, including SOL, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDC — meaning validators can pay infrastructure costs directly from staking rewards without converting to fiat. The company maintains a stated policy of no account restrictions for blockchain operators, a meaningful distinction from cloud providers that have historically flagged or limited crypto-related accounts.

Technical support is available around the clock via live chat, email, phone, Telegram, and Discord. The company advertises a 15-second average response time for live chat. Operators running production validators on thin margins have little tolerance for slow support during incidents, and Cherry Servers has built its support reputation around that constraint.

Notable Customers

Several well-known Solana ecosystem participants have publicly documented their use of Cherry Servers:

Everstake, one of Solana's largest professional validator operators, began running production validators on Cherry Servers infrastructure in mid-2024. In a published case study, Everstake's DevOps team noted the platform's "customizable, transparent infrastructure and responsive support tailored to demanding blockchain workloads."

StableLab reported a 35% reduction in hosting costs after migrating validator infrastructure to Cherry Servers, alongside a 20% increase in infrastructure revenue — a combination that reflects the margin advantages of bare metal over cloud VMs for staking businesses.

Stakin cited the hardware performance and customer service quality as primary reasons for choosing the provider.

Zeeve, a node infrastructure platform, described Cherry Servers' team as "exceptional, ever-supportive, always available" in published testimonials.

Context for Validators

For individual or institutional Solana validators evaluating hosting options, Cherry Servers sits in a specific niche. It is not a managed staking service — operators retain full control of their validator software and key management. Nor is it a colocation provider where you ship your own hardware. It occupies the middle ground: purpose-configured bare metal, available on hourly or monthly billing, from a provider that understands the operational demands of Solana consensus participation.

The explicit Firedancer configurations indicate that Cherry Servers is tracking client diversity developments on Solana closely. As Firedancer moves toward broader mainnet adoption, having pre-validated hardware configurations reduces deployment friction for operators switching clients.

The company's founding in 2001 and focus on European infrastructure predates Web3 by two decades, which gives it the network and colocation contracts that newer crypto-native providers often lack. The blockchain focus appears to be a deliberate recent pivot rather than the company's original identity, with dedicated Solana product pages, blog content on validator hardware requirements, and partnerships like DoubleZero all pointing toward a sustained commitment to the sector rather than opportunistic marketing.